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A Spectrum Of Options For Parallel Simulation (1988)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 1988 Winter Simulation Conference |
| Citations: | 68 - 5 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Reynolds88aspectrum,
author = {Paul Reynolds},
title = {A Spectrum Of Options For Parallel Simulation},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 1988 Winter Simulation Conference},
year = {1988},
pages = {325--332}
}
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Abstract
Conventional wisdom has it there are two basic approaches to parallel simulation: conservative (Chandy-Misra) and optimistic (time warp). All known protocols are thought to fall into one of these two classes. This dichotomy is false. There exists a spectrum of options that includes these approaches. We describe a design space that admits these as alternatives, we show how most of the well known parallel simulation approaches can be derived using our design alternatives, and we explore the implications of the existence of the design space we describe. In particular, we note there are many as yet unexplored approaches to parallel simulation. 1. INTRODUCTION Parallel simulation, generally called distributed simulation in the literature, is concerned with the parallel execution of discrete event simulations. Beginning with the research of Chandy and Misra [ChMi79] and Peacock et al. [PeWo79], a number of approaches have been described for coordinating cooperating processes so th...
